Dale “Snort” Snodgrass, a renowned F-14 Tomcat pilot and accomplished airshow performer, was reported to have perished on July 24, 2021, in Lewiston, Idaho, when a SIAI Marchetti SM.1019 crashed…
The Lockheed AH-56A Cheyenne’s ability to self-deploy over great distances, including the 2,200-mile journey from California to Hawaii, was a little-noticed feature of the aircraft The Lockheed AH-56A Cheyenne assault…
As the Ghost of Kyiv legend spreads, we are reminded of another wartime tale that also inspired people during a time of war As the legend of the Ghost of…
The USAF ordered 93 F-12B Blackbird Mach 3+ Interceptors, each of which was equipped with three Hughes AIM-47A Falcon air-to-air missiles in secure compartments at the fuselage’s bottom On February…
Although the F4U Corsair subsequently proved to be a better fighter in Pacific operations, its initial use in this theater of operations exposed its flaws Although the F4U Corsair ultimately…
The Tu-160’s performance and design attributes, according to the Russian military and many of the world’s best aviation specialists, theoretically give it an advantage over the B-1B and the stealthy…
‘I am really tired of hearing the “LA speed story” so I thought I would relay a mission that gives real perspective to the speed of the Blackbird,’ David Peters,…
The F-86D Sabre Dog was equipped with an afterburning engine in the form of a General Electric J47-GE-17 turbojet An intelligence warning in 1948 prompted the US Air Force (USAF)…
Given that US, Italian, and French carrier strike groups have been operating in the Mediterranean for the last several weeks, the position of the cruisers around the Aegean is a…
The “Candy Bomber,” retired colonel Gail Halvorsen, came in to tell the kids which plane was carrying the chocolate while rocking the wings of his C-54 Skymaster aircraft Retired Col.…